Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal install on Windows 7

2009/9/10 Sebastian Sylvan :

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 20:19 +0100, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

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On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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        If the Windows users can come to a consensus on whether the         default should be global or user, then we can easily switch         it. The same applies for the default global or user         installation paths.

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I think it's morally right to run as user by default. Yes, the windows culture has some legacy that may, on occasion, make it slightly harder to use "well behaved" programs, but it's fairly minor these days.

So is it just a matter of switching the default, or do the default user paths have to change too? Is there any recommended/sensible place for installing per-user applications on Windows? (I think there wasn't on XP, but perhaps that's changed on Vista/Win7)

I think it's %LOCALAPPDATA%

-- Sebastian Sylvan

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Is there any %LOCALAPPDATA% on Windows XP? If not, what is the difference between %LOCALAPPDATA% and %APPDATA% in Windows Vista/7? I was thinking if it's not unreasonable to store Cabal stuff in %APPDATA%, one might as well use that and cover XP, Vista and 7 all in one. -- Deniz Dogan